WIDER Angle
JULY 2010
FEATURE ARTICLES AND HIGHLIGHTS
The Challenge of Small Island Developing States
Wim Naudé, Mark McGillivray and Amelia U. Santos-Paulino. Full article.
RECENT EVENTS
Global Crises and Entrepreneurial Incentives with Wim Naudé. New York, USA
24 June 2010
Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE), Helsinki, Finland
18-19 June 2010
The (Evolving) Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction: An Empirical Perspective, with Luc Christiaensen. New York, USA
2 June 2010
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Visiting scholars and PhD Research internship programme. Application closing date 30 September 2010.
For more information on how to apply, see Opportunities.
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Journals
Special Section: Female Entrepreneurship across Countries and in Development
The European Journal of Development Research, Volume 22(3)
Guest Editors Maria Minniti and Wim Naudé
UNU-WIDER Special Issue on Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States
The Journal of Development Studies, Volume 46(5)
Edited by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray and Wim Naudé
Urbanization and Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (forthcoming)
Edited by Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis and Ravi Kanbur
The Rise of China and India: Impacts, Prospects and Implications (forthcoming)
Edited by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan
Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/
WIDER Working Papers
The Impact of Multiple Imputation of Coarsened Data on Estimates on the Working Poor in South Africa
Claire Vermaak WP2010/86
Elites and Institutional Persistence
James A. Robinson WP2010/85
Why Are the Elite in China Motivated to Promote Growth?
Xiaowei Zang WP2010/84
The Long-Run Weight of Communism or the Weight of Long-Run History?
Gérard Roland WP2010/83
Elite Capture or Capture Elites? Lessons from the 'Counter-elite' and 'Co-opt-elite' Approaches in Bangladesh and Ghana
Sam Wong WP2010/82
Two for the Price of One? The Contribution to Development of the New Female Elites
Alison Wolf WP2010/81
ICT Sector, Globalization and Urban Economic Growth: Evidence from Bangalore (India)
M. R. Narayana WP2010/80
Energy Consumption and Carbon Emission-Based Productivity Change and Industrialization in Post-Reform China
Shiyi Chen and Amelia U. Santos-Paulino WP2010/78
When Unstable, Growth Is Less Pro-Poor
Patrick Guillaumont and Catherine Korachais WP2010/77
Subjective Poverty and Reference-Dependence: Income over Time, Aspirations and Reference Groups
Carolina Castilla WP2010/76
Misuse of Institutions: Lessons from Transition
Leonid Polishchuk WP2010/75
Poverty and Time
Walter Bossert, Satya R. Chakravarty and Conchita d'Ambrosio WP2010/74
Empirical Issues in Lifetime Poverty Measurement
Michael Hoy, Brennan Scott Thompson and Buhong Zheng WP2010/73
Measuring the Effect of Spell Recurrence on Poverty Dynamics
José Maria Arranz and Olga Cantó WP2010/72
On Some Problems of Variable Population Poverty Comparisons
Nicole Hassoun and S. Subramanian WP2010/71
Globalization and Exclusionary Urban Growth in Asian Countries
Amitabh Kundu and Debolina Kundu WP2010/70
How Production Firms Adapt to War: The Case of Liberia
Topher L. McDougal WP2010/69
Entrepreneurship and Human Development: A Capability Approach Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé WP2010/68
Globalizing Households and Multi-ethnic Community Building in Japan
Chihiro Ishii WP2010/67
Health and the Urban Transition: Effects of Household Perceptions, Illness, and Environmental Pollution on Clean Water Investment
James H. Spencer WP2010/66
Information on all of WIDER's publications is available on our website: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/